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Strange characters that look like verification keep showing up.

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keyboarddesk
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For some reason whenever I go on some websites there are these characters that kind of look like the verification type from megaupload.

http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/3897/problemik.jpg

I did some searching and followed a couple tips on here like going to view>character encoding>auto detect>universal but that didn't help. Firefox is completely updated and i don't have any strange add-ons. This only happens with Firefox, not with Internet Explorer. Has anyone else had this problem?

For some reason whenever I go on some websites there are these characters that kind of look like the verification type from megaupload. http://img547.imageshack.us/img547/3897/problemik.jpg I did some searching and followed a couple tips on here like going to view>character encoding>auto detect>universal but that didn't help. Firefox is completely updated and i don't have any strange add-ons. This only happens with Firefox, not with Internet Explorer. Has anyone else had this problem?

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cor-el
cor-el
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This issue can be caused by an old bitmap version of the Helvetica or Geneva font or (bitmap) fonts that Firefox can't display in that size.
Firefox can't display some old bitmap fonts in a larger size and displays gibberish instead.
You can test that by zooming out (View > Zoom > Zoom Out, Ctrl -) to make the text smaller.

Uninstall (remove) all variants of that not working font to make Firefox use another font or see if you can find a True type version that doesn't show the problem.

See also /tiki-view_forum_thread.php?forumId=1...